Title: Highway to Hell
Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore
Main Character: Refer book 1 or 2 of Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil
Plot/Summary: On their way to spend spring break on a Texas beach, freshmen Maggie Quinn and D & D Lisa are stranded in a town where some believe a chupacabra is killing animals, and as the girls investigate they get help from diverse and unexpected sources.
Themes: Witchcraft, mythical monsters(el chupacabra), demonology, journalism, mystery/detective stories, horror
Posted by LaiQ at 11:40 pm 0 comments
Title: Hell Week
Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore
Main Character: Refer book 1 of Maggie Quinn:Girl vs. Evil
Plot/Summary: While working undercover on a series of stories for her campus newspaper, college freshman Maggie reluctantly endures mixers, rites, and peculiar rules, but soon learns that members of the sonority to which she has been pledged have strange powers and a terrible secret.
Theme: Horror, action, Greek letter societies, demonology, journalism
Posted by LaiQ at 11:33 pm 0 comments
Title: Prom Dates from Hell(Maggie Quinn:Girl vs.. Evil)
Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore
Main Character: It was 17 years since Maggie Quinn’s Sight(clairvoyance etc.) kicked in. She was forced to go for Prom(didn’t plan on going for Prom)to vanquish a demon summoned by a crazed schoolmate.
Summary/Plot: High school senior and yearbook photographer Maggie thought she would rather die than go to prom, but when a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon, she has no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil incarnate.
Theme: Magic(demonology), horror
AN: Full of action, sharp wit and plain craziness. All in all, a good read(also because of the vocabulary)
Posted by LaiQ at 11:26 pm 0 comments
Title: The Finnish Line(S.A.S.S.)
Author: Linda Gerber
Main Character: Maureen ‘Mo’ Clark signed up for a S.A.S.S. skiing programme, intent on getting away from her family(of renowned skiers).
Summary/Plot: Mo went overseas on a scholar-athlete programme, away from her father’s shadow. However, balancing classes and practice gets more challenging. She meets a boy(outcast), who trains her in return for her gaining him publicity.
Themes: Sports(skiing), romance, relationships
Posted by LaiQ at 11:17 pm 0 comments
Title: Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
Author: Robin Brande
Main Character: Mena was responsible for getting her church, pastor, family, former friends and their parents sued. She copes with high school life with the help of her lab partner, his family and biology teacher.
Summary/Plot: Following her conscience led high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in new friendships and more when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include ‘Intelligent Design’ in lessons on evolution.
Themes: Faith/Religion(Christianity), Science(evolution), Relationships
Posted by LaiQ at 11:06 pm 0 comments
Title: Vibes
Author: Amy Kathleen Ryan
Main Character: Kristi has a psychic ability-to read minds. She is also judgemental because she can read minds and knows whether to trust the person or not. She gets to discover herself(and the others around her) a bit more throughout the story.
Plot/Summary: Kristi, a sophomore in an alternative high school, thinks that nearly everyone dislikes her but begins to doubt her psychic insights after learning long held family secrets and some classmates’ true feelings.
Themes: Relationship
Posted by LaiQ at 10:59 pm 0 comments
Title: Princess of the Midnight Ball
Author: Jessica Day George
Main Character(s): Galen is an ex-soldier, returning from a battle won. He works as a gardener in the King’s Folly-which his uncle is in charge of.
Summary/Plot: A retelling of the 12 princesses who wear out their dancing shoes every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the King’s gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.
Theme: Fairy tales, fantasy, romance
Posted by LaiQ at 10:48 pm 0 comments
Title: Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
Author: Robin Brande
Main Character(s): Mena Reece is single-handedly responsible for getting her church, pastor, and everyone of her former friends and their parents sued for millions of dollars. Her parents won’t even talk to her-even though she did the right thing. Her life starts to ‘evolve’ when her biology teacher, Ms. Shepherd, partnered her to Casey(lab partner) for project work.
Plot/Summary: Following her conscience led high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in new friendships and more when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include ‘Intelligent Design’ in lessons on evolution.
AN: In my opinion, this is a good read-short chapters, quirky characters etc. It lets the readers think about which we believe-science; religion; or both(is possible).
Posted by LaiQ at 12:26 am 0 comments
Title: Geek High(Book #1)
Author: Piper Banks
Main Character(s): Miranda Bloom is a math genius with divorced parents, an ‘evil’ stepmother and is currently single. She doesn’t fit in with the other geeks at school due to her gift.
Summary/Plot: Known as the ‘Human Calculator’, 15 year old Miranda Bloom is anything but popular, and it seems worse when she has to move in to her estranged father and his family, then is blackmailed into planning a school dance, where she will be escorted by a freshman while her stepsister dances with Miranda’s dream date.
Theme(s): Relationships
AN: I’m reading this for you (you know who you are) so be grateful!
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Title: Vampire Academy
Author: Richelle Mead
Main Character(s): Rose Hathaway is a dhampir(half vampire, half human). She is a guardian and confident of Lissa(vampire princess).
Plot/Summary: Lissa and Rose were caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir’s Academy. Here, the girls learn to navigate through the dangerous world, confront temptation of forbidden romance, and never let their guard down to survive.
Theme(s): Fiction(vampire fiction), Relationships
Author’s Comments: V. nice; on my hit list!^^
Posted by LaiQ at 1:32 am 0 comments
Title: The City in the Lake
Author: Rachel Neumeier
Main Character(s): Timou is learning to be a mage, as was her father. She never knew who her mother was. When trouble befell her country, she travels to the ‘heart’ of the City to solve the problem.
Summary/Plot: A teenage girl who is learning to be a mage must save her mysterious, magical homeland, The Kingdom, from a powerful force that is trying to control it.
Theme(s): Relations, Fantasy, Fiction(Magic)
Author’s Comments: I liked it, surprisingly.
Posted by LaiQ at 1:20 am 0 comments
Title: The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Author: Catherine Jinks
Main Character(s): Nina Harrison became a vampire when she was fifteen(1973).She’s a reformed vampire-1 that doesn’t bite humans.She writes vampire fiction.
Summary/Plot: 15 year old vampire Nina has been stuck for 51 years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them-until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
Theme(s): Mystery, Fiction(vampire fiction), Humour
Comments: Not your usual vampires, seriously.
Posted by LaiQ at 12:54 am 0 comments
Title: You are so Undead to me
Author: Stacey Jay
Main Character: Megan Berry is a zombie settler and thus, are able to communicate with zombies and ruining her social life.
Summary/Plot: Megan Berry, a Carol, Arkansas high school student who can commune with the Undead, must team up with her childhood friends to save homecoming from an army of flesh-hungry zombies.
Themes: Supernatural, relationships
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Title: Into the dark(Echo Falls Mystery #3)
Author: Peter Abrahams
Main Character: Ingrid is an inquisitive thirteen year old, she learns deductive skills from her Sherlock Holmes books.
Plot/Summary: Thirteen year old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin Hill tries to clear her grandfather’s name when he is accused of murdering an environmental officer found dead on his farm.
Theme: Murder, Mystery
AN: In my opinion, I think Ingrid is a reckless girl. Reckless, and smart. Also, I have been skipping a lot of book 2s lately… -.-
Posted by LaiQ at 7:10 pm 0 comments
Title: The One(A Chloe Gamble Novel #1)
Author: Ed Decter & Laura J. Burns
Main Character: Chloe Gamble is a humble, ambitious Texas girl. She moved to LA to become famous.
Plot/Summary: Chloe Gamble knows three things: she’s better than the Texas town she grew up in; there’s just one person she can trust; and she wants to be famous. And what Chloe wants, Chloe gets.
Themes: Stardom(?)
Author’s Notes: The book ‘voices’ the opinions of the other characters. The main character, unlike your usual snobby/rich It girls. Instead, Chloe uses her looks and wits to help her out. By the way, she comes from a ‘messy’ family.
Posted by LaiQ at 6:40 pm 0 comments
Title: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy(Gallagher Academy #2)
Author: Ally Carter
Main Characters: Cameron aka Cammie studies in the Gallagher Girls’ Academy-a school for spies. She is an extremely talented ‘Pavement Artist’ and so, earned the nick ‘Chameleon’.
Summary/Plot: After staking out, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie wants is a peaceful semester. But that's easier said than done. Their school is going to play host to some mysterious guests-Blackthorne. Then she's blamed for a security breach that leaves the school's top secret status at risk. Soon Cammie and her friends are crawling through walls and surveilling the school to learn the truth about Blackthorne and clear her name. Even though they have confidence in their spy skills, this time the stacks are higher.
Themes: Espionage, Romance, Action(?)
Posted by LaiQ at 4:34 pm 0 comments
Title: The Circle of Blood
Author: Alane Ferguson
Main Character: –(refer to The Christopher Killer)
Summary/Plot: As she uses her knowledge of Forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.
Themes: Forensic Science, Mystery
Posted by LaiQ at 4:19 pm 0 comments
Title: The Christopher Killer
Author: Alane Ferguson
Main Character(s): Cameryn Mahoney wants a future career as a coroner. So she asks to be assistant to his coroner father. She is referred to be more of the ‘Science’ type by her friends(i.e. practical)
Summery/Plot: On the payroll as am assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.
Theme(s): Mystery, Forensic Science
Posted by LaiQ at 3:50 pm 0 comments
Title: The Musician's Daughter
Author: Susanne Dunlap
Main Character: 15 year old Theresa is convinced that her musician father was murdered and is determined to solve the mystery of his murder.
Plot/Summary: In 18th century Vienna,Austria,Theresa seeks a way to help her remaining family financially while investigating her father's murder, a renowned violinist's of Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, whose body was found near a Gypsy camp.
Theme: History, music, mystery
Posted by LaiQ at 5:56 pm 0 comments
Title: Magic Study
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Main Character(s): Yelena is on her way to be reunited with the family she'd been stolen from long ago. She felt isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her in many ways, and her newfound friends and relatives don't think it's for the better.
Plot/Summary: After finally returning to her homeland, having been kidnapped as a child, Yelena must tame the magic she never knew she had even as she’s suspected of being a spy and embroiled in the hunt to catch a nefarious serial killer.
Theme: Fantasy, magic, relationships
Posted by LaiQ at 5:43 pm 0 comments
Title: Shadow Web
Author: N.M.Browne
Main Character(s): Jessica was bored & decided to surf(on the net)for her name.She found out another person with the same name.They decided to meet & both girls' are caltaputed into each another's world.
Summary/Plot: Jessica finds herself in a parallel London of 50 years ago, but the year is still 2008. In this parallel London, the history is different, key war memorials are missing, and the Jessica whose life she now inhabits was involved in a dark and sinister conspiracy. Jess must convince everyone she is the same girl, at all costs, if she wants to get back to her London-alive.
Themes: Parallel universe, adventure, fiction, conspiracy
Posted by LaiQ at 6:28 pm 0 comments
Title: The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
Author: Suzanne Harper
Main Character(s): Sparrow's secret is that she is a psychic but she persistantly denies it till an appearance of a mule-headed ghost.
Summary/Plot: In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of spiritism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonises over whether or not to reveal her spacial abilities in order to help a friend.
Theme: Fiction, Psychics, Staying true to oneself
Posted by LaiQ at 6:12 pm 0 comments
Title: Gamer Girl
Author: Mari Mancusi
Main Character(s): Maddy's parents split up so she's stuck with her unicorn-manic grandma's house. She was nicknamed 'Freak Girl' on her first day of school. To get over these events, she takes refuge in her manga drawing and IRL games.
Plot/Summary: Struggling to fit in after her parents' divorce sends her from Boston to her grandmother's housre in the country. Maddy forms a manga club at school and falls in love through an online fantasy game.
Theme(s): Relations, Comic/Manga, High school life
Posted by LaiQ at 1:17 pm 0 comments
Title: The Juliet Club
Author: Suzanne Harper
Main Character(s): Kate is a down-to-earth girl who was dumped by her boyfriend someone else. She vows never to fall in love again.When she is accepted to a summer shakespeare symposium, she thought it will get her over her heartbreak.
Plot/Summary: When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but about star-crossed lovers-and herself.
Themes: Interpersonal relations, literature
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Title: Kumari: Goddess of Destiny
Author: Amanda Lees
Main Character(s): Kumari has to return to the World Beyond to avenge her mother.
Plot/Summary: Kumari has saved the Hidden Kingdom from disaster, and is longing to return to the World Beyond. Then a dramatic message from the gods sends the girl goddess on the most important mission of her life.
Theme: Relationship, Adventure
Posted by LaiQ at 5:55 pm 0 comments
Title: The Spell book of Listen Taylor
Author: Jaclyn Moriarty
Main Character(s): Listen Taylor is left friendless when she was chucked out of her clique.
Plot/Summary: Listen learns a great deal from the eccentric and secretive Zing family as she learns to cope with a new school, problems with old friends and a spell book she found after moving in with her father's girlfriend.
Theme(s):Relationship, Fantasy, Life
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Title: Bewitching Season
Author: Marissa Doyle
Main Character(s): Persephone Leland is a reserved girl and keen about learning new things.
Plot/Summary: Persephone and Penelope are starting their first season in London when they found out that their beloved governess has disappeared.
Themes: Fantasy, Romance
Posted by LaiQ at 5:42 pm 0 comments
Title: War of the Witches
Author: Maite Carranza
Main Character(s): Anaid is different from her other schoolmates. But when her mother disappears, she discovers what makes her different: she is a witch.
Plot/Summary: When her mother disappears, Anaid sets out on a journey after hearing that her mother is a witch,prophesied to be the chosen one to end the ancient war between the two feuding clans.
Themes: Fantasy
Posted by LaiQ at 5:36 pm 0 comments
Title: The Seance
Author: Iain Lawrence
Main Character(s): Scooter King works with her mother to make her seances look real.
Plot/Summary: Magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and expose fraudulent mediums but Scooter King needs his help to solve a murder.
Theme: Mystery
Posted by LaiQ at 5:31 pm 0 comments
Title: A School for Sorcery
Author: E. Rose Sabin
Main Character(s): Tria would have resigned herself to working on a farm and marrying a farmer but thanks to her mother's connections, she will be attending a renowned school: Simonton School for the Magically Gifted.
Plot/Summary: Tria attends the Simonton School for the Magically Gifted and has to cope to the changes in her new school life.
Theme: Fantasy
Posted by LaiQ at 5:18 pm 0 comments
Title: Soulless
Author: Christopher Golden
Main Character(s): Phoenix is spending the summer with her father-a last chance to get to know each other before she goes for college.Matt Gaines and Noah Eisen are headstrong college rivals, who might be more similar to each other than they think.Jack is an outcast, a former gangmember. Tania, a teenage pop star worries about her girlfriend and audience.
Summary/Plot: The attempt of three powerful mediums to open up communication between the living and the dead has disastrous consequences when every corpse within a three-hundred-mile radius of New York City is animated and begins to prey on the living.
Theme(s): Supernatural, Horror, Relationships
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Title: Beauty And The Bully
Author: Andy Behrens
Main Character(s): Garageband front man Duncan wants to get the attention of goddess-like Carly, who's so busy trying to save the world that she would not even look in his direction.
Summary/Plot: When Duncan accidentally bruises himself, Carly wants to know who punched him and vows to take care of him. But as his black eye fades, so does her devotion. Duncan needs a plan, a bully.
Theme(s): Comedy
Posted by LaiQ at 10:41 am 0 comments
Title: Demonkeeper
Author: Royce Buckingham
Main Character(s): Nat is a demonkeeper but when his mentor/guardian disappeared,he was charged with keeping the demons that live in the old house by himself.
Summary/Plot:When Nat leaves for a date with the plainest girl in town, chaos breaks out in the houseful of demons in which he is supposed to be in charge of.
Theme(s):Horror, Supernatural
Posted by LaiQ at 10:22 am 0 comments
Title: Woodenface
Author: Gus Grenfell
Main Character(s): Meg was accused of being a witch when a local girl falls ill.
Summary/Plot: Meg is a Maker, pouring life into her carved dolls. When she was accused of witchcraft, she flees in the hopes of finding her father. But he was also falsely accused of stealing. Meg must learn what being a Maker means, and confront the demons that stalk her before being able to save her father.
Theme(s): Historical, Fantasy
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